#i hate the idea of being famous

[benilos]

god i just sometimes really wish the things i created brought other ppl the same joy it brings me. i want to give something so happy for them to enjoy, i want them to feel this same wonder i do when creating. why wouldnt you want to share that feeling with other people? do u know how happy i am when i am creating? would you like to?

[guardian-of-da-gay]

simpler times

[keirientez]

band au rahhhhhhhhhhh

[fever-project]

Also also Ravio probably has pictures of Hilda that he shouldn’t have but he somehow got copies of em or something and they’re hidden behind a curtain, or in his diary. Kinda like marinette from ml

omg no I hate marinette 🫣<-closest emoji that I could find to describe putting my head in my hands all embarrassed like. But like, I can see him trying to snap pictures of Hilda, trying to be secretive. Hilda’s 100% aware of what’s he’s doing and finds it very amusing. She sometimes purposefully poses when she knows Ravio taking a picture of her “secretively,” but is trying to act natural about it so he doesn’t catch on. They’re both weirdos your honor.

[pyechmushy]

Hyperfixation so bad I spent two hours on tumblr looking at any post about it while listening to the character's playlist because I got so excited thinking about that I physically couldn't take it

[navree]

no longer gonna have to see against my will absolutely dogshit dragon show takes that are the absolute pits of misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, and inability to celebrate fact from fiction for at least two more years now

[girlwiththegreenhat]

who give a shit about tayIor swift

[not-poignant]

Hi pia do you ever want to get famous off of your work?

Hi anon,

I don't, actually.

All I really care about is one day being able to make a living wage off my original work. That does mean that a few more people have to find it and love it and want to spend money on it, but I've never sought fame at all.

As for the fanfiction, I do it because I love it and enjoy interacting with the folks who love it. So I already get everything I need from that. :)

[punk-pins]

i hope every man in my workplace kills himself when taylor swift wins the super bowl

[kkujo]

this is so true omg. these mfs who act like they can always tell literally. can't tell. and it's so obvious bc they just say it to anyone with slightly "masculine" features like. if a woman has thick brows or a strong jawline they're like YOU'LL NEVER BE A WOMAN 🗣 and it's horrible but it's 100% a throwing darts in the dark situation. sometimes they'll get it right but in the process they're harassing a bunch of women cis AND trans who are literally just minding their business and it's honestly embarrassing. trans girls if you're worried abt getting clocked by this type of mf please remember that they genuinely cannot tell!!! they're just stabbing wildly at any woman hoping they'll get it right at some point. i know so many cis girls who've had this shit said to them i promise these people cannot tell.

[taylorftparamore]

i feel insane every time people act like taylor hate can never be based in misogyny. like, because they hate taylor for reasons unrelated to misogyny (ie, her private jet and her new billionaire status, both of which are valid critiques of her class status as a wealthy white american woman and the benefits she reaps from classism and us imperialism but like... imo that means you shouldn't listen to ANY white rich american artists and i guarantee you that some of your indie faves are actually rich), there can be no misogynistic critiques of taylor

like i was deadass reading right wing folks who insist taylor swift is a secret trans woman out to ruin our kids with lgbt agenda and like. that is a transmisgynstic reason for hating taylor. taylor might not be an actual trans woman, but she is literally being hated for a transmisogynstic reason. similarly, saying she's simply TOO MEAN to her ex boyfriends for.... writing about her feelings in a diaristic songwriting format? calling her calculated and manipulative for... writing songs about her personal life? those are all misogynistic reasons to hate her!

like yes. there are reasons to hate her that are unrelated to misogyny. but just because some taylor hate isn't misgynstic, doesn't mean no hate about taylor is just pure misogyny. and it's weird to call it white feminism to say the slut shaming and backlash taylor faced early in her career before she was ever a billionaire private jet owner was not just pure sexism. like for god's sake, people accused her of NOT WRITING HER OWN SONGS because they believed some teenage girl couldn't POSSIBLY write as good as she did.

and it's also weird to pretend taylor has NEVER faced misogyny when going up against record label companies. sony deadass shut her down when she said she wanted to record her debut album when she was 13 and force her to give up her songs to them to give to other artists. scott brocheta specifically talked about 14 year old taylor swift as being "pretty" like that was her only accomplishment. she was literally shut out of the process of buying her own master's and then told why won't she just fuckin shut up and take the abuse?? like... it is so WEIRD that people pretend that sexism stops existing when high profile women face it.

and to taylor haters: this isn't to say you have to like her. but i am BEGGING y'all to stop pretending that taylor hate can never, ever be misogynistic.

[mycological-mariner]

As it turns out, after being really impassioned to learn about my Nana’s side of the family that I am a descendant of one of my ‘historical enemies’

Rest in fucking peace.

[sillimancer]

talked to my therapist today a little bit about how I'm having mixed feelings about starting a blog again because I got a couple bluesky notifications on posts and it made me happy and motivated me to write some blog post notes and I agreed with their comment that, Given The Circumstances, it's probably not cringe under any circumstances to find things that bring me joy and want to keep being alive, but I also feel like we breezed a little too quickly past my issue with realizing that I haven't been writing for all these years because I felt like I had nothing to say, but it turns out I actually have a lot of things to say, it's just really disheartening and exhausting to say things and have nobody hear you, and bluesky has been the first time in a long time where I felt like maybe potentially people wanted to hear what I have to say

to be fair to my therapist this was like the last two minutes of session

[cursed-spirit-manipulation]

thinking Abt Suguru autism and struggling bc I have forgotten 1. Everything Suguru has ever done 2. Every symptom of autism ever and then I remembered Suguru fucking. Knows every curse he's swallowed. And it's like y'know what maybe I don't have to make an airtight case for this

[mikhailoism]

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[weaselle]

i want to talk about real life villains

Not someone who mugs you, or kills someone while driving drunk, those are just criminals. I mean VILLAINS.

Not like trump or musk, who are... cartoonishly evil. And not sexy villains, not grandiose villains, not even satisfyingly two dimensional villains it is easy to hate unconditionally. The real villains.

I had a client who was a retired executive for one of the big oil companies, i think it was Shell or Chevron. Had a home just outside of San Francisco that was wall to wall floor to ceiling full of expensive art. Literally. I once accidentally knocked a painting off the wall because it was hanging at knee height at the corner of the stairs, and it had a little brass plaque on it, and i looked up the name of the artist and it was Monet's apprentice and son-in-law, who was apparently also a famous painter. He had an original Andy Warhol, which should have been a prize piece for anyone to showcase -- it was hanging in the bathroom. I swear to god this guy was using a Chihuly (famous glass sculptor) as a fruit bowl. And he was like, "idk my wife was the one who liked art"

I was intrigued by this guy, because in the circles i run this dude is The Enemy. right? Wealthy oil executive? But as my client, he was... like a sweet grandpa. A poor widower, a nice old man, anyone who knew him would have called him a sweetheart. He had a slightly bewildered air, a sort of gentle bumbling nature.

And the fact that he was both of these things, a Sweet Little Old Man and The Enemy, at the same time, seemed important and fascinating to me.

He reminded me of some antagonist from fiction, but i couldn't put my finger on who. And when i did it all made sense.

John Hammond.

probably one of the most realistic bad guys ever written.

If you've only ever seen the movie, this will need some explaining.

Michael Crichton wrote Jurassic Park in 1990, and i read it shortly thereafter. In the movie, the dinosaurs are the antagonists, which imo erases 50% of the point of the story.

book spoilers below.

In the book, John Hammond is the villain but it takes the reader like half the book to figure that out. Just like my client, John is a sweet old man who wants lovely things for people. He's a very sympathetic character. But as the book progresses, you start to see something about him.

He has an idea, and he's sure it's a good one. When someone else dies in pursuit of his dream, he doesn't think anything of it. When other people turn out to care about that, he brings in experts to evaluate the safety of his idea, and when they quickly tell him his idea is dangerous and needs to be put on hold, he ignores his own experts that he himself hired, because they are telling him that he is wrong, and he is sure he is right.

In his mind, he's a visionary, and nobody understands his vision. He is surrounded by naysayers. Several things have proven too difficult to do the best and safest way, so he has cut corners and taken shortcuts so he can keep moving forward with his plans, but he's sure it's fine. He refuses to hear any word of caution, because he believes he is being cautious enough, and he knows best, even though he has no background in any of the sciences or professions involved. He sends his own grandchildren out into a life-threatening situation because he is willfully ignorant of the danger he is creating.

THIS is like the real villains of the world. He doesn't want anyone to die. Far from it, he only wants good things for people! He's a sweet old man who loves his grandchildren. But he has money and power and refuses to hear that what he is doing is dangerous for everyone, even his own family.

I think he's possibly one of the most important villains ever written in popular fiction.

In the book, he is killed by a pack of the smallest, cutest, "least dangerous" dinosaurs, because a big part of why we read fiction is to see the villains face thematic justice. But like a cigarette CEO dying of lung cancer, his death does not stop his creation from spreading out into the world to continue to endanger everyone else.

I think it is really important to see and understand this kind of villainy in fiction, so you can recognize it in real life.

Sweetheart of a grandfather. Wanted the best for everyone. Right up until what was best for everyone inconvenienced the pursuit of his own interests.

And my client was like that too. His wife had died, and his dog was now the love of his life, and she was this little old dog with silky hair in a hair cut that left long wispy bits on her lower legs. Certain plant materials were easily entangled in this hair and impossible to get out without pulling her hair which clearly hurt her. When i suggested he ask his groomer to trim her lower leg hair short to avoid this, he refused, saying he really liked her usual hair cut.

I emphasized that she was in pain after every walk due to the plant debris getting caught in her leg hair, and a simple trim could put an end to her daily painful removal of it, and he just frowned like i'd recommended he take a bath in pig shit and said "But she'll be ugly" and refused to talk about it anymore.

Sweet old man though. Everyone loved him.